Foreign News: Life & Death

Britons last week were reading a book
called Parents Revolt by a couple named Titmuss. Young Richard Titmuss
of the Health Ministry and his wife Kathleen are among the sundry
Britons who, amid their war worries, have found time for the fear that
the British are a dying race.

For several decades Britain's birth rate has been falling. Among those
aroused about it is the University of Edinburgh's Professor F. A. E.
Crew. Cried he recently:" A people's birth rate is the measure of
their faith in themselves. We must build a social structure...